The House Race Hotline reports that Gabrielle Giffords has 4 times as much cash on hand as Patty Weiss in the race for the Democratic nomination in Arizona’s 8th congressional district.
That kind of money can buy a lot of name recognition.

I’ll have more to say about Pew’s recently released survey, but for now I’ll start with this excerpt (the highlighting is mine):
About 14% of Latinos cited immigration as “the most important problem facing the country today,” second only to the war in Iraq (22%). But Hispanics, who in past surveys have not ranked immigration […]

One of my goals this cycle is to make the point that the politics of illegal immigration and the pursuit of the Latino vote should most often be regarded as two separate issues. Polls show that immigration is a bigger issue for non-Latinos - read whites - than it is for Latino voters. Latino voters […]

Though Google denies it, many share the suspicion covered last week by Paul Boutin in Slate that one of the highlights of Google’s plan for world domination is rendering the chip inside each personal computer more or less irrelevant (and, by extension, the Microsoft Windows operating system as well) and instead making every keyboard and […]